NO ! Not our John, the beer, silly.
I’d wanted to revisit Osset’s Fox, a favourite of BRAPA and myself and a test of how midweek lunchtime drinking is holding up in mid-2022.
We’d have popped in the Volunteer, a GBG regular,
but lunchtime opening isn’t for everyone, and besides there was a scary object on the bench outside that was either a suspect device or an entrant to Robot Wars c. 2005.
Oddly, in 2016 I found The Fox a bit quieter and the beer a bit duller than I did now. That’s good news.
“A multi-roomed gem” I wrote 6 years ago, showing my innate predictability of phrase even then.
Equally predictably, a half of Silver King, or is it Silver Fox in honour of John. Who knows.
A choice of about five (5) drinking areas off the main drag, so we again predictably choose the one on the left with someone in we can eavesdrop on. That’s me, not John.
One for fans of bench seating and colours over than grey.
My photo looks like it’s nicked from Ossett’s website, which shows you how good the beer was, a cool, crisp 3.5. I guess the dark one’s the Porter, but you know what happened to my notes. Buy me a pencil for my birthday (22/12).
Baa Baa liked this one, relieved at the lack of a ban on electronic devices,
and jigging (do sheep jig ?) along to a classic soundtrack that suddenly veered from classic Motown to this jam;
Only now do I realise that Rare Earth were somehow ON the Motown label while also heading a line-up of the great and the good in the 1970s.
I await the Southworth brothers’ verdict on their musical oeuvre.
retiredmartin 
I find that one of the more eclectic concert selections that I’ve ever seen. Bloomfield and Iggy? “Then Came the Last Days of May” on the BOC live album one of my favorite guitar solos. Go Buck.
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But who were Rare Earth, Dave ? Big in the States, nothing at all here. Bit early for you, I guess.
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Mostly white guys from Detroit playing R&B. I Just Want To Celebrate was played a ton at public venues like sporting events. Detroit had a crazy mix of music at that time.
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I owned one of their albums. It had Get Ready on it, one of their hits. Purchased in 1971 or 72.
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Or more likely, 1970. That is when Get Ready was a hit.
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2 years was a LONG time in the early ’70s Dick !
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Almost as weird as the Aerosmith, Rush, Leo Sayer gig poster I saw recently.
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Leo teamed up with Geddy and Run DMC to sing “Spirit of Radio”.
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Hearing “When I Need You” had an unfortunate effect on the post 1990 output of Aerosmith.
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True! Back then it was a larger percentage of our lives.
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Oops. Wrong spot!
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I know what you meant ! Age 16-20 feels far bigger than 50-54.
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“how good the beer was”, Ossett being well known for their Autovacs.
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“Society for the Protection of Beer Through Autovacs” is what we need, Paul.
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